touch pad isn't working correctly.

[Michael]

weird.... I ran synclient again and it works now

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 8:08 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My touchpad is detected (scroll up/down works) but touch-click does not
> work. In my search I found a solution but it did not work with the
> following error:
>
> $ synclient tapbutton1=1
> Command 'synclient' not found, but can be installed with:
> sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Do you want to install it? (N/y)y
> sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> catfish dh-elpa-helper gir1.2-xfconf-0 libbpf0 libgdal31
> libprotobuf-lite23 python-pastedeploy-tpl
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> Suggested packages:
> gpointing-device-settings touchfreeze
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
> Need to get 221 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 336 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics amd64 1.9.2-1 [221 kB]
> Fetched 221 kB in 1s (353 kB/s)
> Selecting previously unselected package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
> (Reading database ... 631474 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.9.2-1_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (1.9.2-1) ...
> Setting up xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (1.9.2-1) ...
> Processing triggers for kali-menu (2022.4.1) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.1-1) ...
>
>
> $ synclient tapbutton1=1
> Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
>
> Any pointers? I went settings- mouse/touchpad but the check box to enable
> tap selection isn't there.
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>


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